100 Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

That's the key thing I learned from making 'The East': It doesn't matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there's a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

I love watching 'House of Cards.'

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

Even in 'The OA,' we had to follow Guild requirements and put 'directed by' and the credits, and I'm embarrassed to put my name every time. I mean, who cares. Look it up on the Internet if you want to know who made it.

'The East' could easily be a TV show.

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?

I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.

We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.