Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.