I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.
Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.