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.
In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.
When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.
A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.
Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the camera.
'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.
TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.
Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.
That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me.
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.
