It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.