I’m always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I’m tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It’s the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you’re a kid. That’s why I still do it.

If you’re not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it’s probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.