If You Do Something Awesome, You Should

I Think One Of The Problems In Determining The Ending For A Television Series Is That You Don't Know How Long The Show Is Gonna Last. Particularly Because We Were In The Unique Position Of Adapting Tom's Perrotta Novel The Leftovers, It Always Felt Like The First Season Was Gonna End With The End Of Tom's Novel, And Then We Would Figure Things Out From There And Look Back.

I Look At Myself More As A Storyteller Than A Screenwriter, As Pretentious As That May Sound, But That's What Really Attracts Me To Ted Talks. For Me, The Really Effective Ones Are Being Presented By Expert Storytellers.

I Think The Idea That Television Has Evolved To This Place Of Real Thematic Richness And The Fact That You No Longer Have To Get 10 Million People To Watch Your Show In Order To Propagate Its Survival Are The Best Things That Have Ever Happened To Storytelling In This Medium.

Hire People You Get Along With, And Then Let Them Do What They Do Best.

I Don't Think It's Hubris For Me To Say I'm A Trek Fan. So, I Don't Treat Trek Fans As Somebody Who's Separate Than I Am. The Only Thing That Separates Them Is, I'm One Of The People Responsible For The Story In This Movie And They're Not. But We're All Trek Fans. I Can Hang.