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

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.

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.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

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.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.