What’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything – the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
Cameron Crowe is someone who I’ve admired for so long, and I’ve been friends with him for many years, and I’ve wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.
It’s more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies.
I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.
I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.
I’m obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.
I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you’re creating and writing it, or sometimes you’re writing and directing it, or other times you’re there from the very beginning.
Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.
Don’t sell your story, just tell your story.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
It’s not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.
Whenever you’re playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren’t force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
I’m an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I’ll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for “Felicity” or “Alias” ever again. I’m just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
I do think there’s something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We’re in this very weird place where we’re being pulled into experiences that aren’t really experiences at all.
I’m working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.