As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge ….

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver..

The interpretive element of "Lost," the fact that you immediately need as soon as the episode is over to seek out a community of people to express yo….

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that st….

I felt like if I said something positive on Twitter, it got no play. But if I said something negative on Twitter, it was a billion retweets and so th….

I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look ba….

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism..

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories..

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?".

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world..

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself..

I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time ….

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen pro….

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever,….

It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe the….

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland..

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy t….

I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk ….

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour Star Trek movie..

Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best..

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me….