If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there is a devilry in Thomas Harris' presentation - so it felt like it was completely honest and appropriate for the character. And we often talk in the writers' room, "Okay, there is the Hannibal as the devil explanation of that plot point, but we also need to ground that in a reality that is answerable to the physics of the storytelling."

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

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

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

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

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.