As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I'm not really on set thinking, "Oh, my God, this is television. It's very different."

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.