As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there..

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end..

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of….

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week..

Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to d….

The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still tak….

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time..

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have diffe….

You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [C….

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events tha….

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically an….

I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew qui….

For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don'….

One of the reasons why I failed was because I figured out in the research process that I couldn't tell it as just, "This is what Frances Farmer's lif….

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for h….

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world..

I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, ….

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current….

I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it ….

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobod….

Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Ab….