I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.

Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.