Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Relationships are now off-kilter.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played!

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow.

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.