I think a pilot is a pilot, no matter who's judging it, but I will say I am thinking a lot about how to tell stories for the series in a streaming environment where you can anticipate a huge portion of the audience will consume an entire season in the course of a day, two days or a week.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force.