You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off..

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow ….

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins..

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work..

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-li….

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in..

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've….

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets withou….

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate puttin….

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. ….

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will..

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend..

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of th….

You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns in….

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot..

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a ch….

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first draf….

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside th….

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers..

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works….

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place..