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I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

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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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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

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

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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

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It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

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