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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.