If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.