Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.