Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

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.

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

This is unbearable how I talk.

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

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.