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.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about what worked and what didn't work, and plan for the future. And the pacing of the storytelling, particularly for on-going serialized dramas, means that you don't need to do non-essential episodes, just because you have to fill this pre-existing schedule.

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

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

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.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.