I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.