At The End Of The Day If

You Want A Happy Ending, But Not Such A Ridiculous Happy Ending That It Doesn't Mean Anything To Anybody.

I've Made A Career Making Stuff That Nobody Sees, So Anything That I Can Do To Help Make Something That People Are Going To Enjoy And Want To See Over And Over Again, Then I'm There.

The Good Thing Is That I Really Think That American Television Is In Kind Of A Second Golden Age. Even Though There's A Lot Of Reality And All Those Contest Shows, Which Aren't My Kind Of Shows, The Scripted Stuff That's Going On Is So Good Right Now Because Of Basic Cable. Everyone Has Stepped It Up And Realised That People Like Quality.

I'm From Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's Right Outside Detroit. The Suburbs. I Was Always Very Heavily Involved In Theater Back Then. I Was Always In Drama Club Or Forensics. Anything That You Could Do That Had Some Performing, I Was Doing It.

You Have To Know Everything. You Have To Know How To Light A Scene. You Have To Know All This Technical Stuff About Directing. No, You Don't. You Can Know As Much Or As Little As You Have To. Your Main Job Is To Get Great Performances And Tell The Story Correctly And Capture It Correctly. Then It's Just Basically Yours To Complicate Or Simplify As Much As You Want.