If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

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

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

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.