I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.