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

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

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

Showrunner I admire: Weiss: "All friendship bias duly acknowledged: Rob McElhenney and the guys at 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' have been doing their show for longer than any live action comedy. To make something that consistently great for that long, and to keep it fresh ... I think that's a tremendous accomplishment.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I'm just not a natural teacher.