Bryan Fuller

“What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.”

“I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.”

“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.”

“I was such a huge fan of 'The X-Files.'”

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

“If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'”

“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.”

“The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.”

“One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.”

“People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.”

“Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.”

“Upfronts are all about ad sales.”

“With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.”

“For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.”

“I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.”

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

“If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.”

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

“If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.”

“I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.”