The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.