J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

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.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

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.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

Any theory is better than no theory.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try.

Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.