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

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

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

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.

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

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

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.