Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.

One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.