Director

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

It's very easy to fall into a rut where you're just making things that you don't believe in for other people.

I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my training wheels for action coverage.

I remember, when 'Atlanta' first happened, I didn't know what to expect. It felt like it was a lot of responsibility.

Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.

I used to be terrified of heights as a kid.

That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me.

I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.

Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.'

I've never been robbed in person, but I've gotten my car broken into a couple of times.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.

Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!

The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before.

The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.