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When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they're thinking about.

Things always happen in series.

When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.

When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.