If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

I just think we live in a world where people are so excited about the hot new thing, but you can't necessarily tell a story in one movie. With this platform, we can really dive deep and go for it.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.