A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

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

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.