I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier.