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?

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

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

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

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

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

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.