There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.