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

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

Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.

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

Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was disconnected from the living but could bring the dead back to life being a pie maker felt like I got the symbolism of food as life.

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

Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.