Inside “Homeland”: Acclaimed TV Director Lesli Linka Glatter On How to Shoot Dialogue

Lesli Linka Glatter has probably directed your favorite TV episode. Here, she talks about the recent, phenomenal Homeland episode "Q&A" and her process for making unforgettable, dialog-driven scenes. TV director Lesli Linka Glatter’s list of credits is almost identical to every critic’s listicle ranking the best dramas from the past two decades. She’s behind pivotal episodes of Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, The West Wing, E.R., House, and Mad Men. Glatter also directed the standout installment of this season of Homeland: the terse, thrilling, and brilliantly acted interrogation episode called “Q&A,” in which bipolar C.I.A. agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) breaks the object of her romantic and professional obsession, ex-Marine turned terrorist turned Congressman Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis). Lesli Linka GlatterThough the talents of Danes an...