Working As A Showrunner Has Made It

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 Always Think It's Better To Take Your Time And Go Through A Lot Of Ideas - And Dismiss A Lot Of Ideas - Before Figuring Out Where To Land. It's A Good Way To Care For Your Audience, Too. If You Spend Hours And Hours And Days And Weeks Coming Up With The Ending, Then There's A Chance The Fans Won't Figure It Out On Their Own.

Cheers Was One Of The First Shows Where I Paid Attention To The Writers Because Their [work] Was Better Than Everything Else I Was Watching. The Writers Weren't Afraid To Let A Joke Fall Slightly Flat If It Advanced The Characters.

I Don't Want My Writing To Be Recognized.

I Have No Problem At All Going Back And Forth Between Cable And Network.