Justified - Interview with Timothy Olyphant

How do you juggle being the star of the show and one of its producers? What do you do as a producer?
What a producer does is one of the great mysteries of life. [Laughs.] I don't know what template I'm following, but I've basically got the green light to completely overstep in every department. You name it, I'm in there meddling, poking my nose in there — from the writers to the designers to the special effects to the stunts. It's too much fun! I'll be stumbling around the art department going, "What can you make in here? What are you capable of?" It's sort of a never-ending playground. I don't quite understand it all, and sometimes I have no clue what they're all doing, but it's fascinating to watch the story come together. It's a fun math problem every time.

Do you get to bug Elmore Leonard a lot?
[Laughs.] You know those floors, where you need a key for the elevator? Elmore's on one of those floors. I'm not sure who, if anybody, has a key to that floor, but he does his thing, and we all reap the benefits.

Source: Full interview @ Vulture