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Upfronts are all about ad sales.
Relationships are now off-kilter.
I was such a huge fan of 'The X-Files.'
Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.
I think you have to write what you want to watch.
I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.
I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.
We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.
If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.
I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.
We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.
The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.
As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.
Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.
International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.
A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
I 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.
For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.
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.
I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.
You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.
I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.
There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.
I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.
I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.
I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.
If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.
What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.
Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.
Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.
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.
I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.