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.

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

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.

Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

I think that I'm always open to any kind of project.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.