I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.