To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

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.

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.