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

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.

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.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.