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.

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

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.

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.