Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

I felt like if I said something positive on Twitter, it got no play. But if I said something negative on Twitter, it was a billion retweets and so that was giving me a Pavlovian response to be mean, and I don't want to be mean. We all have mean thoughts. They should not be broadcast on Twitter. You don't need to see mean things.

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour Star Trek movie.

You can't just come out and do the same moves that you always do because someone just basically came into the center of the ring and spun around on their head and did a back flip.

I think that we, as writers, get excited by risk. When we are feeling comfortable and familiar, I wouldn't say that we get bored, but the energy in the room gets flat. When we're most excited and when the show is the most fun, it's when we're duking things out.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.