When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.