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

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

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

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

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.

Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.