I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.