If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.