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

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.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

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.

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

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.

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