I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

What is ultimately motivating the character?

Anybody who is rude to anyone in the service industry is automatically out.

I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."