My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.