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

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.

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.

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.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.