Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

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.

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.

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

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