I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.