You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen..

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied wi….

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a ….

I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly..

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe..

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you bett….

What's a hero if not for its journey..

The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting..

People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network..

I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logica….

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about th….

So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a ….

Fortunately, I have an amazing partner that allows us to do these different things, who will be directing an episode himself soon, I'm sure. But, it'….

Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge p….

Once people start to realize the consistency of quality that is coming, they'll start to open up their minds a little more and say, "Wow, this is gre….

I would much rather have somebody say, "You know what? I just didn't like what you were doing," then say, "They didn't know what they were doing." I ….

Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else..

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up w….

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films..

A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find ….

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that..