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

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

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.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.