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

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.

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

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

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.

Knowledge is intellectual art.

Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.

I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

All beginnings are involuntary.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.