In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

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

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 have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

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

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

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