The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.