I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

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

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

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

I only eat meat, if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

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.