I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.
We're never trying to manipulate and mess with. . . When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.
You put the movie out and then it's up to you guys to go oh that was good.
I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right now and what do we need to do, and tell it from that place. If we really make it character driven and theme driven, I think we're going to offer up something new for the audience.
The audience rejects the movies when it feels a little bit more of the same.
I'll go through all of [12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the election], but a sample: Volunteer to fight Islamaphobia. Join the ACLU. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Take down sexism and misogyny. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism.
A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.
Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.