The writers could always do an about-face and change everything

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."