I Love Stage Actors. The Pool Of

I've Been Asked To Direct Pilots For A Lot Of Shows.

Basically, When I'm Writing Something, I Think About What Is The Subject Of The Piece. The Subject Of The Piece Is Our Fear Of Getting Old, Which Is A Variation On Our Fear Of Dying.

Great Actors Come With Depth About How Their Character Sees The World, And They Completely Defend It. They Could Defend It In A Court Of Law, Down To The Reason The Patient Deserved This.

I Think I Take What You Might Call A B-movie Story, Deal With B-movie Subjects, And I Treat It As If It's An A-movie In Terms Of My Approach, My Crew, My Actors, My Ethics And So On. I Guess That's My Trademark Or One Of Them Anyway!

As A Child, I Probably Knew Phrases That Other Children Didn't Known, Like "pitocin Drip" Or "myocardial Infarction." Some Kind Of Knowledge Was Always In The Air. My Parents Would Always Talk About Science At The Dinner Table, Saying Something About This Patient Or Some Other Patient. So I Guess For A Nanosecond In Early High School, I Thought About Going Into Medicine.