For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.