If you're sick, watch funny movies.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

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.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.