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

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.