You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.

I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and who's being affected, and I was surprised to see that - something that was - way back when I was in the thick of it, it was typified as a fairly white, middle-class girl problem. And if it was, it really isn't anymore.