As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.