I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

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.

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

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

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 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.