I'm not in the service business.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

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.