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.

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.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

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