I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults; and when I say great for adults, it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.

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

It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I was really interested in film and theater. What's ironic is that when I started doing television, I did a bunch of amazing shows all in a row, starting with The Corner.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

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.