I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements - the way we listened to eight years of racism around the presidency. It will be an argument before it's a conversation. But at least it's being had.

The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.