Interview

“It didn’t go so well.”

“It was one of the most nerve-racking experiences of my life, holding a gun to Anthony Hopkins’s face.”

The director of Brad’s Status on his “craven” contemporaries, Dawson’s Creek and Enlightened, and whether he considers himself “successful.”

“I don’t want to sound pompous, but in my career, I’ve done a lot of shit that people didn’t get when it came out, and eventually they catch it!”

“Maybe this could be the start that they’ve been needing.”

“There’s a lot of people trying to be weird out there on the internet, but we just stick to our guns.”

“I don’t want to look like a goddess because people are real and goddesses aren’t.”

“You can’t run away. If you do, you can’t run away forever.”

“It’s definitely an ‘all is lost’ moment.”

“It’s less that they’re the same person and more that they’re two of the ancient beings of Westeros.”

“Listen, I’d love to be like Davos. I aspire to be that man.”

“I’m constantly being told, ‘Oh, you can’t do that because you’re Asian.’ In making my own thing, I think I proved those statements false.”

“It actually was the same track from the original series. David didn’t even use pitch correction!”

“I do feel an increased sense of urgency. We’re living in a climate where we’re seeing women and minorities undervalued to an alarming degree.”

“He’s not in the episode this coming Sunday because he’s in Lamaze class.”

“It won’t be so good if he gets to meet Daenerys.”

“I needed to really get that voice right. It was really important to me.”

“She’s so open, it makes you want to open yourself up and be like, ‘I’m also a hurting person!’”

“You get exactly the time they give you. If they say two hours, they say two hours. Right down to the second.”

“We don’t get to see each other as often as we used to, so it’s fun to just hang out and talk about the ’80s in Romania.”