You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.