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.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

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.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

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

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.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.