Why buy a book when you can join a library?

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.