I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access.

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.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

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.

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.