TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like ‘Breaking Bad‘ and then go straight into something like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It’s not something I focus on, but when they’re great projects, I can’t pass them up.

I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

When Friday Night Lights finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.

The great thing about ‘Friday Night Lights,’ unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn’t take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I’d find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It was surreal.

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don’t like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it’s something you shouldn’t launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like ‘Friday Night Lights’.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He’s gonna fight and he‘s gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in ‘Friday Night Lights’ and ‘The Kingdom.’ I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

True Blood‘ is amazing. I have to give a shout out to ‘Melrose Place‘ because I do watch. I love ‘Entourage.’ One of my favorite shows back in the day was ‘Friday Night Lights.

I am a late discoverer of ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry – happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.