I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?