I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

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

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

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

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