I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.