When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

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

When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

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.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

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.