I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.