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.

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.

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 someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

Suffocate despair with prayers.

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.