You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.