I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.