My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.