I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.