Relationships are now off-kilter.

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.

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.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things