Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

I'm too passionate about what I do. I like to get involved.

I didn't want to spoil the mood. This was probably the longest Daemon and I had ever spoken without some statement earning him the finger.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

If you see something, say something.