I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.