A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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.
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?'