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

As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

Finding meaning in the relationships that we have with one another - that's the only way to achieve any kind of fundamental true grace and that points to where it all ends up. It's let's stop being away some place, let's be here. It's, let's be in this.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.