I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

I really feed off of The Walking Dead.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'