In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

I was a weird kid. I loved music, and I loved reading about God.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one truth about what happened in those interviews, so I feel very relaxed about bringing my imagination to the piece. God knows everyone else has.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.