What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people..

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more..

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television..

Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper a….

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell..

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever..

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling..

I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography..

I wanna keep being productive and creative..

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television..

[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a….

Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a….

It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are headi….

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many..

Whatever it takes to get you where you need to be, there's nothing wrong with the method acting or having to growl and bang your head in a corner and….

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under c….

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea o….

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested..

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each t….

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away..

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it..