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.

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.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

Create your own fears

A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

All who love have lied.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The only people who should play for England are English people.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.