I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.