For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

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

I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

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

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.