We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.