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"A director has to be the caretaker of the actors and he has to submit to the actors' character, whatever that is, and mix it with the character that he's playing. The other, is that the director's constantly talking or listening. I mean from the moment he arrives on the set he is either talking or listening."

"Writer's block is when you think your ideas aren't good and you get stumped.  And I figured out… that you write it the way you would write badly, the way you wouldn't turn it in.  And as soon as you start, your writing becomes better.  Because you've tackled the subject."

"The basic message of Gunsmoke was that there's going to be the bad and there's going to be the good.  And most of the time, the good will win out.  That's an old theme. There are no new themes, it's just the way you do them. It's the way you bring fresh characters to that theme."

"We began thinking of a series that had everything that you're not supposed to put on television: rich people, the Midwest, older women - particularly strong and powerful - lots of business, entrepreneurs, greed, opulence... all the Donald Trump stuff."

"If you can transport people for just a second, then I think maybe you've done your job fairly well."