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

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

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."

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

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