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.

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.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

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

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.