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.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

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.

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.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.

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.