It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

I do believe that the audience is capable of embracing quality. But a lot of times, they'll be like, 'Why isn't there ever anything good on TV? Put something good on.' 'Uh, if you watched this, it would help.'

What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.

As an industry, when you're in the talent business, we are way too obsessed on the competition with each other and not enough with the consumer.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I'm fascinated by comedy.