Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

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.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.