As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.