That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.