I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
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."
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.