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

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me

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

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

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

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.

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.