TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

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.

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.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

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

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