It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

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

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.