I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

If I went for a long period in my life where I was unemployed and I was unable to make a living and the only way for me to basically provide for my family was, "Hey, we're bringing Lost back!", then I would probably consider it. But I feel like it would be a betrayal to the fandom, and myself, to do anymore Lost, because we had such an adequate period of time to end the show.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

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

Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.