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

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

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.

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

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

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

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.