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.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

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.