I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.