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.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

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 asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

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

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

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