“There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required.”

It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.

Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

You don’t always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.

That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.

There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn’t in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you’re waiting and waiting and waiting,

The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.

If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,

I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.

We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy.

I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently.

We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group.