Yael Stone

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.