Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.