With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons and, you know, like the sun disappearing from the world. Winter is coming. It would have been so expensive the way we would have needed to do it, had we known that the apocalypse was coming.