When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.