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

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

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

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

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

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.