For Us, There's An Inherent Process When

At Some Point, You Can't Take A Risk Just To Take A Risk Because That's A Betrayal, In And Of Itself.

Part Of The Fun Of The Movie Is Understanding Exactly Why We Called It Prometheus. And Also, It Sounds Really Pretentious, Like Inception, So We Were Just Like, "yeah, That Makes The Movie Sound Really Smart!" It's So Much Better Then My Original Title, Explosion. Well, There Might Be An Explosion In The Movie.

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.

Lost Is A Mystery Show, So I Think That Would Be Stripping The Franchise Of Sort Of Its Essential Nature.

Hopping Around Time In A Non-linear Storytelling Fashion (on 'lost') Allows You To Bring Back Characters Who Are Dead And, In Some Cases, Buried. Now That Time Travel Is The Story Itself, It Opens Up Even More Doors. So When An Actor Reads That They're Getting Killed Off On The Show, They're Basically, Like, 'okay, But Should I Still Bother To Show Up Next Week?'