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,….

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

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

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

But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about….

Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that mak….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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 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….

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….

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….

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

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

Ultimately, I just felt like Twitter brought out the worst in me. It made me super defensive when I was attacked, because you're under a constant sta….

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….

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

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

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….