The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

None of us really know where we're going.

I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it not existing. It's like a good book. What makes a good book is hard to say. I don't know. I just look for something that grabs me. I don't have a way of looking for a project, and I don't know many people that do. It's just year to year, and what's going around and what's there.

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or tragedy, you try to mix it up within that. You can work on a comedy and it's not laugh-a-minute off set. You can work on a tragedy that's absolutely hilarious.