HFPA member Tina Jøhnk Christensen met actor/playwright/musician Jeff Daniels to talk about his new TV show The Looming Tower, the politics behind it, and working during 9/11. He also discusses the phases of his career, his dreams as a young actor, lessons from Jack Nicholson on Terms of Endearment, his role in The Purple Rose of Cairo, working with Jim Carrey with Dumb and Dumber, the Northwestern speech on The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin's writing process, and owning his own theater The Purple Rose.