When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

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 lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

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 believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.