I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.