My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

Troian is one of the most incredibly gifted actors I have ever seen.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.