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.

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.

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.

Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.

He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.