I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.
“The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.”
“But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.”