You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

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

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