If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

The audience, that's who I care about.