I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion.

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.

Life's messy, " he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

They usually show movies on a flight like that.

He views life with tenderness and determination.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.