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It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.