I love producing, I love bringing things together.

You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.