One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.