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

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.

Easter

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.