Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.