My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

There 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.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

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.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.