Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

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

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.