Life is a very emotional experience.

I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that