Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.