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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

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