I just love working with actors in general.

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

All good dramas are rife with conflicts, and the conflicts have to be resolved. What I think is so great about a show that takes place in a hospital is that you have so many different people with different needs. Sometimes all those can be in conflict. The drama of Heartland also comes from the group of people waiting, and they are sometimes agonizingly waiting for a new organ for their body in order to survive. So the show is so much about survival, which creates a sense of urgency to get the organs. I think that sense of urgency is probably the most prominent dramatic quality to the show.

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.