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

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

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

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.