One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.
Bryan FullerFood is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.
Bryan FullerA poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.
Bryan FullerAs an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.
Bryan FullerI love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.
Bryan FullerEverything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.
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