Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.