HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.

I have been drumming my whole life.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

I grew up in the theatre.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.