I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)

What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.