I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.
A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'
Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."