There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Set your end goal...the steps in between - is your path

I think you should ignore Sara Teasdale (she’s a bit of a moper, to be honest.). Take Christina Rossetti’s advice and be fire.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.