Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.