It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

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.

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

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

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

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.