When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

"I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.