It's about something that I'm extremely passionate about: exploring other cultures, how Americans are perceived by other cultures and how we perceive other cultures through our worldview. I travel whenever I get an opportunity to do so, and I think this country is ready for a show on television that is bilingual and really puts front and center another culture, both as the protagonist and the antagonist.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.