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"I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way."
"I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches."
"The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television."
"I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters."
"I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health."
"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."
"I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them."
"Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by."
"Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that."
"Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing."
"I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul."
"I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers."
"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."
"We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men."
"I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them."
"I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?"