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'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.

I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.

Reading is more important than writing.

It's not about the speed of the river, but flow of the current.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Reth laughed. I punched him. It hurt. Me, not him, unfortunately.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.