There's not a lot of money in revenge.

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.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

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.

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.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.