I'll Never Be Immune To Criticism, And

I Stand By The Lost Finale. It's The Story That We Wanted To Tell, And We Told It. No Excuses. No Apologies. I Look Back On It As Fondly As I Look Back On The Process Of Writing The Whole Show. And While I'll Always Care What You Think, I Can't Be A Slave To It Anymore. Here's Why: I Did It For Me. I Liked It. I Was Good At It. And I Was Really … I Was Alive.

In Television, I Don't Feel Constraints. I Feel A Lot Freedom To Maneuver.

I Was Born In 1973, So I Did Not See 'alien' When It Was Released Theatrically. I Saw 'alien' When It Was On Home Box Office. I Think I Was Probably 10.

I Think That At The End Of The Day I'm Drawn To A Certain Level Of Ambiguous Storytelling That Requires Hard Thought And Work In The Same Way That The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Does: Sometimes You Just Want To Put It Down Or Throw It Out The Window, But There's A Real Rewarding Sense If You Feel Like You've Cracked It.

Good Twists Are Enormously Hard To Come By, And I Think The Best Ones Are Earned Ones. The Idea That A Story Can Take A Left Turn On You, It's Easy To Do, But It Has To Be Done Very, Very Carefully, Or Else You Risk Losing The Audience's Trust.