I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.