We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

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 am a great woman.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that's something that should be done.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.