Mystery is more important than knowledge.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.