I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Relationships are now off-kilter.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.