In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.