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

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

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.

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.

If I dream under a moonlit night, should it vanish with the brightness of the morning sun?

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.