The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Healthy people sleep eight hours, Wealthy people sleep four hours.

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink