I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.