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

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

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

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?'

Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.

I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.