I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Everyone's journey is completely different.