Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something and you're fairly convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the middle of Season 4, Episode 5 of Lost. It's like picking up a Harry Potter book and flipping to a chapter. You have to read it from beginning to end.

I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

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

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.