When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

I intend to do more directing TV.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.