I have so many things that I want to do, and I don't have enough time in my life to do them all. The problem with acting business is that it's so expensive and you've got to get so many people to say yes.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.