Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.