As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

I've been clawing my way to directing since I was a kid.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

TV is all new to me because I came from features.

Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

I'm a small government conservative.