I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.