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

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

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about awards in this town is that a lot is about the drama - like the drama of the performance. And he said "Your show, The Wire, looks so real, it almost looks like a documentary. And people who aren't artists - a lot of people who vote for this stuff - don't get it."

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

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