It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' W….

Yes, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on there, but it still comes down to those seven people. What are they going to do? How are they going to dea….

Casting is really weird. Honestly, when Alan Ruck's name came up - and I've worked with Alan before - I went, "Yes, he's perfect." He came in and rea….

It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second season or doing another chapter. ….

I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a ….

And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would hav….

What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes d….

When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving ….

Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras. There isn'….

Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eigh….

What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a ….

Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn'….

I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it as an event. I'll be honest, we did….

When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much mo….

I feel confident that it will always keep everybody guessing, and yet not in that weird, maddening way where it's like, "Oh, come on, guys!" I think ….

And, there's clearly not going to be any outside help coming, anytime soon. These people are going to have to figure out some way to get out of this ….

There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a co….

I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my pitch. I was on my way to a camping trip with ….

There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and ou….

What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them an umbrella in the heig….

I've always been a sci-fi geek, and I've always loved it. It's my favorite genre of all. The irony of ironies is that, in my early career, I just rea….