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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show - one never knows.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.