A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

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.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.