You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

There are things that have gone on in thr USA for years and years and have never been addressed, and they need to be.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

I'll forever be a Longhorn.