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

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.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

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.