Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows, ' which I followed avidly as a kid.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

I'm not coming in to teach and play the big veteran guy. I'm coming in to win games.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and those beneath the earth; so let all creation sing Christ's rising, by which it is established.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.