It’s about surgery. It’s our show sort of on speed.

This isn’t a traditional medical drama. I’ve always said from the beginning, we’re a relationship show with surgery. It’s never about the patients. It’s about how the doctors feel about the patients.

It’s incredibly encouraging that our viewers haven’t gotten hung up on the race thing.

It’s that time in your life when you literally don’t know if what you’re going to do is going to work or not, what your future is, if you’re going to make it.

You could. And I think it says that’s bad and it’s black and it’s a code, honestly.

They wouldn’t shut up about it. ‘He’s totally an alcoholic and here’s why.’ I hate them sometimes. Especially when they are right. Because Richard is totally an alcoholic and now I see why.

I planned the episode knowing that it was possible that it could be the Super Bowl episode, but also knowing that we would do the episode whether or not it was on Super Bowl Sunday.

It worked out extremely well. The 10th episode was an incredibly strong episode to start out the season. So it was really easy for us to end the season on that ninth episode and start...

I don’t see myself lessening the narration for Meredith. Meredith is wonderful and she’s got a great voice and it’s lovely to see the world through a specific set of eyes. That’s important to the...

It’s still definitely ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ I don’t think it’s anything like that other show. We do surgeries. It’s about surgery. It’s our show sort of on speed, I guess.

For us, not having a time slot last year, and now all of you watching … has been great.

What I find interesting is that there are some people out there who take the show very seriously. But then I think about how strongly I felt about ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and how emotional...

I’m a post-Civil Rights baby. I’m not trying to make a point. This is just the way the world looks now.

The Web allows people to know our names and what we look like. As a writer, you don’t expect to be recognizable to anybody. And it’s certainly not your goal. But I spent so much...

I can feel it when there’s too much medical and not enough personal, and that’s the most important balance to keep. We’ve done episodes where there’s a ton of personal and not very much medical....

Being after ‘Desperate Housewives’ has allowed a large number of people to discover our show. But they stay and come back each week because these characters feel like people you know. And no matter what...

If you haven’t seen the show, it’s very easy to figure out what’s going on. The stories that are there, the relationships that are there are very clear.

It meant we could have two leading men and two leading men in very different ways.