I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore..

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - e….

What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or ….

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic..

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun..

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big..

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so l….

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love..

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again..

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies..

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches..

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow c….

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static..

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like e….

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What….

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect r….

Every so often you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type ….

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart..

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis..

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch..

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how ….