If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

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.

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

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.