I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.