I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

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

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

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

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.

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.

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