I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don't know, because I'm not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they're more fun.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.