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

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

To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access.