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

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

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

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I feel like the big twist shows are now off the table. I think Westworld was probably the last one to Trojan horse this idea of the young man in black. They were doing non-linear storytelling, but disguising it. Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have spoken openly about how they just didn't think people were going to figure it out that fast.

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.

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