For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

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!"

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.