Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.