A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.