If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

Imagery is like music.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.