Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

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

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

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?'

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

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."

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.