When you're a writer and you're a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

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

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

It's just immensely frustrating that things like Breaking Bad get made that are kind of perfect! There's not even a bad episode of Breaking Bad, let alone a bad season. I want to be able to say, "Hey everybody, it's impossible to make a show where every episode is great!" No it's not.