Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend Dean Lorey, who was on the show originally - and we were working on a movie. There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, "Well, we can't do that!"

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.