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

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

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.

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

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.

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.