In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

Pot always just made me sleepy.