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.

[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.

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.

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.

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

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.