Fights take a long time to shoot.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

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.

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

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

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.

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