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

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.

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.

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.

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

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.