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.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

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.