There's no way around it, drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.