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

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

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 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.

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