Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
“I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.”
“When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.”