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..

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

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell..

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same..

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

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous am….

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed..

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

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It ….

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued..

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 w….

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive..

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people ….

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television..

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..

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot a….

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 m….

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches..

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'.

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that..

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if….