If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

If you're the guy who basically shows up with coal at the locomotive, they will put it in the train. Like, they won't even assess whatever or not it's good coal. Just throw it in there.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

I think one of the problems in determining the ending for a television series is that you don't know how long the show is gonna last. Particularly because we were in the unique position of adapting Tom's Perrotta novel The Leftovers, it always felt like the first season was gonna end with the end of Tom's novel, and then we would figure things out from there and look back.