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you're sitting there in the middle of nowhere in Nevada and push a button and a pickup
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truck explodes half a world away I I think the Spy Masters it's a news it's the real thing
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I'd like to think that what we do on homeland that's different from what people in the real CIA or in spy Masters
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does is that we are trying to give the poetic version of how we see the mirror held up to
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Nature people often ask me is Homeland real my answer is always the same no um but with one exception and that one
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exception is the passion that the officer show he bet on his ego and our rivalry hoping that'd be enough to take
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me down that passion for the job that passion for the mission is real stop it the the way the characters particularly
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Carrie and Saul get their teeth into a problem and just won't let it go I figured it out what I did I figured it
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out and are prepared to defy convention and to push the limits all of that Rings true I probably
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too irreverently say Carrie worked for me okay minus the sex the drugs and the bipolar thing but Carrie worked for me
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and and frankly that's true if we'd known in 2001 we were staying in Afghanistan down this long we made some
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very different choices right people often ask me if I was Saul or like Saul and I think I would say maybe half like
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Saul you can tell Saul is thinking all the time he's noodling something all the time he's continually working through a
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problem the terrorists are still out there and that problem is not going away the way I work if you write me these
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scenes of of of terrible difficult moments to portray that mirror things that are going on in the world he
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will lose the war and when you do every aloe in the country will be slaughtered what I do is I go into my own
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imagination or my history bank that I'm that I I I've lived or I know about or events in the world that I've seen and
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and that are viscerally connected to me and so in the case of Homeland I put myself into hell for hours every day
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while I'm learning the words you wish me to believe your concern my country until
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I have all the images kind of organized in my head all the choices the possibilities to make just as they would
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do all the possibilities and then I'm there on the set for 12 13 14 16 hours a day and the way I work is I can't play
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checkers and then say action I got to stay in that space the whole time to stay focused and we're rolling and
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it bleeds my soul it does not feed me at all if you're the director and you say great take I'm I'm like I'm I'm pleased
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that you're content but I'm wasted and and if I'm wasted in the pretend World God help them