I know you've been working on Preacher. So far, I've only seen the pilot, but that pilot was pretty crazy. What has it been like just getting to play around in that sandbox?
Because I am the producer/director, I'm actually involved in the construction of the sandbox, so I am able to bring the experience of shooting and directing to the table and to, early on I think, help everyone determine what's important and how we should allocate our resources. Because I've shot for so many years and directed around and met so many other directors, it was very easy for me to go through and look at who we were going to hire -- same thing with directors of photography, whose names I was going to put on the list and whose names we were going to interview. Then, obviously, it becomes a collective decision with everybody and final approvals with Sam Catlin and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and Sony and AMC, but we were able to, in a pretty efficient way, move through that decision-making process.
Was there an early conversation you had with Evan, Seth and Sam where you realized that you were all simpatico on what the show wanted and needed to be?
Scott Winant directed one of the early episodes here and he turned to me and he said, "I've done a lot of fantasy or comic book-based episodic shows in my life, and none have been as deeply layered as this. It's extraordinary." And he's right, because it crosses over from a full-on comic or graphic novel world, but it has feet and roots in our world and in what's universal about everybody. It's a very interesting hybrid. We're very lucky in that Sam has really thought this out and has very, very clear ideas of what it is that he would like. What you will see moving forward is very much the result of Sam and Seth and Evan putting their marks on almost everything exactly the way that Vince did on Breaking Bad. One of the things that was terrific about Breaking Bad is that even though Vince put his finger on stuff, and Vince and Peter did the same on Better Call Saul, when you're that well informed as a guest director, it's not limiting. It's empowering, because you're very clear about what these people want. The more defined the canvas that they give you to work on, the broader your brushstrokes can be when you tell the story.
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