Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

We are all riding on the same bus.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.