When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.