What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

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.

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.

Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.

Success is the prosperity of the soul

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

He just gotta give me that look When he give that look Then the panties comin off off

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

Being different is good; embrace it.