I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

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.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.