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

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.

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

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

When 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.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.