But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be….

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning..

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill yo….

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going i….

It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could carry the weight of t….

Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn….

It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm real….

I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smar….

I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship betwe….

The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had alread….

I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some of them are huge. Given tha….

Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I go out there first. I'm very drawn to ….

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I thin….

I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of ….

It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We ca….

Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in our world, we could find all….

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their familie….

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It'….

If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on t….

I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. I….