The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Beauty is the only master to serve.

SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN LUCKY...OTHERS ARE LUCKY TO BE BORN...I SAY THE WORLD WAS LUCKY I WAS BORN

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.