My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Mandy PatinkinI have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.
Mandy PatinkinWhen you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
Mandy PatinkinI would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy PatinkinThere two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it.
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