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?

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.

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

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

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

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