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

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.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

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.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

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