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

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.

I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor.

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

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.