I'm trying to focus as much on the here and now as possible. To live my life in a way that the humans that I know here on the planet Earth feel like they've been treated with respect by me, whether they're people that I'm very close to or the audience who's watching my work.

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

I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."

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

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

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.