When You Do 22 Episodes Of A

I Like To Tell Stories That Have Beginnings, Middles And Ends.

People Love A Good Mystery; I Understand That.

What I Think Networks Do So Well Are Big, Fun, Accessible, Invite Everybody Into The Tent Kinds Of Storytelling, Akin To An Early Spielberg Movie Or A Michael Crichton Novel. That's Not To Say That There Aren't Scary Parts 'cause There Are, And That There Aren't Sexy Parts And Edgy Parts, Just Like Early Spielberg Would Have, But There's A Lot Of Heart, A Lot Of Emotion And Complicated Characters.

I Have A Bad Habit, In The Shows That I Run, Of Killing Off The People That I Love.

I've Always Said At The Beginning Of Every Single Season Of The Show When I Was Running The Show In The Writers' Room, "this Is The Last Season, So Let's Smoke 'em If We've Got 'em."