I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable.

I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.