He walks among us, but is not with us.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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.