The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.