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.

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.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

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.

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.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.