The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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 try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
Mystery is more important than knowledge.
It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies
I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.
I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire.