There Is No Suspense In

You Can Watch An Episode Of Friends Or An Episode Of Law & Order And Just Drop In, But You're Not Going To In The Middle Of Season 4, Episode 5 Of Lost. It's Like Picking Up A Harry Potter Book And Flipping To A Chapter. You Have To Read It From Beginning To End.

I Would Say That My Fatal Flaw, As A Human Being, Is That I Need People To Like Me, And If They Don't Like Me, I Will Obsess Over It - And Try To Change My Personality Until They Like Me - Even If They Don't Like Me For Reasons That Have Nothing To Do With Me, And Even If They're Strangers.

Some Of The Things I Love The Most Are When A Writer Or A Visionary Takes On Sort Of An Iconic Character And Then Spins It. Like With Frank Miller, Batman Was This One Thing For Basically Forty Years, And Then Frank Miller Came Along And Said He Can Also Be This Other Thing. And Christopher Nolan Came Along And Said He Can Also Be This Other Thing. The Idea Of Taking Iconic Comic Book Characters Or Superhero Characters Or Mythic Characters And Subverting The Genre Or Coming Up With A New Idea Is Something That's Really Interesting To Me.

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.