I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

What I didn't really understand, but then I thought this makes perfect sense, as well - was how many people responded to it by being like, "It was just so nice to take a break." Because even the humor - the great stuff that Samantha Bee and John Oliver and Seth Meyers are doing - it's all anger humor. And for somebody to say, "Hey, we're all idiots," and just be able to laugh at ourselves and be able to connect through that. It's always about connecting with someone, never about scolding them. The only thing I knew right upfront is we're not going after [Donald] Trump supporters.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.