I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

LoveHas a way of wiltingOr blossomingAt the strangest, Most unpredictable hour.This is how love is, An uncontrollable beastIn the form of a flower.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Think street, train sport.

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.