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Tragically I don't have any insightful questions to ask, just wanted to say that you are one of my all time favourite directors (probably even my favourite, strongly considering getting a hill house tattoo). I have yet to watch any of your work that I didn't love! Do you have a top five favourites of your works?

Thank you for saying that - and if you get that tattoo send a pic! I'm always amazed when people do that. (Make sure you're really sure, though - as someone who's had four tattoos lasered off, I'm a big believer in approaching with caution).

It's very, very tough for me to evaluate my own work. They're all colored by the experience of making them, or the difficulty of a certain studio, or a bad cast experience, or whatever. It's impossible to be objective at all.

But if I had to rank my top 5, I'd have to say: 5) Hush - this was an incredibly important movie for Kate and I together, and I love what we made. I also loved the challenge of leaning into purely visual storytelling. When we finished shooting, Kate and I decided to get married, so it feels like an absolutely bizarre and singular chapter in our courtship.

4) Doctor Sleep - this was the biggest movie I ever worked on, and was a joyful and surreal experience throughout. Working for Warner Bros. let me operate on a new and different level, and nothing will ever compare to going to work in the Overlook Hotel. This movie also helped me get sober, so it'll always hold a piece of my soul.

3) The Haunting of Hill House - I love this show, but I sure didn't love making it. The most difficult production experience of my career breeds some very complicated feelings, but I've always been proud of the finished product. There are a few subplots that don't really go anywhere and some loose threads I'd clean up if I had it to do again, but this show was a labor of love and it changed my life forever.

2) The Fall of the House of Usher - I really, really, really love this show. It's just wicked fun. I know you guys haven't seen it yet, we're still finishing it up, but I really think it's something special. And it was a joy to make with such a huge cast of Intrepid All-Stars - so many of my favorite actors from all of the series, and a lot of the movies. It represents the definitive end of the Netflix era, and I just adore it. It's also like nothing else I've ever done... can't wait to show you. This one is fucking ambitious. 1) Midnight Mass - this one may forever be my favorite. The story is by far the most personal one I've told so far, the experience of making it was top-notch across the board, and it remains - frame for frame - the show I most wanted to make. There's never been another project that has captured so much of me. It's the piece of work I hope my kids will interrogate some day when I'm gone; I think watching this will help them know and understand me just a little bit better.

But again, it's impossible to say. I've loved everything I've been lucky enough to make - I told myself at the start I wouldn't work on something if I didn't love it, and I've stayed true to that. But these are the ones that come to mind.