Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.