TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

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

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

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.

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.