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

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.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

It’s a great privilege to not know where you’ll end up, just where you’re headed. It’s the only way to get there.

I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.