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.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

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.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.