Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And, I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.