Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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

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

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

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.