It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.

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.

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.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

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

[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.

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.