When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great experience and seamless experience. You'd also have security. So, we laid out the corporate structure, and then we cherry-picked from that the people who would be brought into the most conflict and the most day-to-day relationship with each other and with the hosts.

I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.