A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their….

My biggest fear in life is to be average..

I consider myself an independent filmmaker..

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see ….

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and b….

I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I….

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen..

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to….

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping..

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies..

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things..

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to….

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was alwa….

Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a posit….

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea..

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them..

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way..

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece..

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom..

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture..