Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.
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.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
