“If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.”
“I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.”
“I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.”
“When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.”
“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.”
“I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.”
“I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.”
“I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.”
“Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.”
“We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'”