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

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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.

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

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.