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

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.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

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.

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