I think the novel, the story and the characters are quite universal.

It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

The dead duck scene is our apple pie [for this movie].

Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.