You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

We feel like Lost deserved a real resolution, not a snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.