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.

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

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

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

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.

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

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?"