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.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

An actor that tells you that they have real choices between material is, for the most part, lying. There are very few people that have opportunities. But what you do have where I am in my career, is saying no to the things that seem repetitious. For me, I always look for material that allows me to bring my worldview to it. And those opportunities, since the beginning of The Shield, have grown exponentially.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations