Rule number one for the writers when we committed to the jump was: no hoverboards. No one is allowed to pitch that everyone is on hoverboards. It's going to be very very gently sci-fi.

In a world where your interactions with humans are solely about rating one to five, two things happen: One is all humanity is lost in the name of fake pleasantries and also there's no nuance to that system. There's no room for complex interactions that are rich and meaningful.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

My main qualm about TV criticism has been when people review TV the way they review movies. They watch the pilot, and write a definitive review of the show. The obvious analogy is that you don't read the first eight pages of a book and then talk about whether the book works or not. People want so desperately in this day and age to declare something thumbs-up or thumbs-down that they declare it immediately.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."