A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

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

"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."

Every so often you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.