If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.