I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.