I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.