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

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

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.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.