People love a good mystery; I understand that.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.