I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.