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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

There are great characters on television.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.