As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.

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

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

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