Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Thing is, just the title alone will get some people interested: everyone has heard of Alcatraz, and they know that really bad people were there. Bad people are intriguing.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.