The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.