You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

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.

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

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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