I've Always Been Fascinated By Disneyland And

Sometimes We Get Frustrated Ourselves And Decide It's Time To Download A Big Chunk Of Mythology. And Then The Audience Says, 'i Find This Confusing And Alienating And Too Weird.' So Then We Pull Back, And They Say, 'you're Not Giving Us Enough'.

Hindsight Is 20/20, But The Moral Of The Writing For Me Is That When You're Feeling Very Scared And Nervous About Something And You're Fairly Convinced That It Could Be A Massive Disaster, That's Exactly The Idea That You Should Do.

I Think That We, As Writers, Get Excited By Risk. When We Are Feeling Comfortable And Familiar, I Wouldn't Say That We Get Bored, But The Energy In The Room Gets Flat. When We're Most Excited And When The Show Is The Most Fun, It's When We're Duking Things Out.

I Look At Myself More As A Storyteller Than A Screenwriter, As Pretentious As That May Sound, But That's What Really Attracts Me To Ted Talks. For Me, The Really Effective Ones Are Being Presented By Expert Storytellers.

I Think The Idea That Television Has Evolved To This Place Of Real Thematic Richness And The Fact That You No Longer Have To Get 10 Million People To Watch Your Show In Order To Propagate Its Survival Are The Best Things That Have Ever Happened To Storytelling In This Medium.