We do want people going to work the next day, going to school the next day, saying, 'Did you see that last night?' because that is good TV.

There's so much going on, and some of it is stuff you don't normally see on network television.

He had never written a drama, and he wanted to see what it needed. It was written in such a fresh and unique way. It combined comedy with really deep emotional roots, and the characters were so clear on the page ... [Daniel is] trying to be good, and it shows the toll that takes.

It's really flattering. It is weird, at school the whole day, just hearing people saying my name and hearing my own principal announcing it. It's a great feeling.

No one grows up saying 'I hope I work in an office one day?' And that fascinated me. People from 16 to 65 are just thrown together and that is a tantalizing mix,

You do what you have to do. Everyone got into school and I went to work every day.