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."

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

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

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

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.