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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.

There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.

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.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.

I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.