Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.