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.

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.

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.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

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

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