Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.