We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

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

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.