The line was certainly firmly drawn between TV and features at one point, but it has really been blurred. Every writer I know now is moving back and forth between both worlds.

Long and involved is the only way I know how to write. I'm that kid with the blue book in the college exam hall, and they say time is up and I keep writing. I think it's human nature, though, that the more you are around something, the more it loses its luster for you and you seek to change it. Typically, you start off trying to tell the work what it's supposed to do, but as you keep going, it starts telling you what to do.

Robbie opened every door. He had the dogged determination of a sheriff from a '40s movie tracking down a fugitive.

There is not a direct line that divides the two, Certainly now, he would make decisions like one made a year ago to make a kind of cease-fire.

In the last 4:19 we scored one point. We didn't create contact. We certainly would have liked to go to the foul line, but we didn't create the contact.

It's a long corridor, basically, that doesn't have a lot of features from one end to the other.