A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.