Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.