I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.