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.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.