A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own.

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.