I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

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.

There is no such thing as a little garlic.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Absence of pain makes anything possible

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.