I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

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.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.