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

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

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

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.

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.

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

The whole world makes comic book movies now.