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I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.