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've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I don't have spare time.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.