Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I hav….

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

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sti….

Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-ti….

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It….

When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. Tha….

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, ….

When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica ….

Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I….

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 th….

Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project..

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 ….

I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my….

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, yo….

I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene….

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lin….

I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this is a Coen Brothers film. Or, he….

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had t….

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical..

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with..

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 ….