There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

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.

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

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.