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

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.

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

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.

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.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.