Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].