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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

TV can be a long commitment.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.