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Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

A lot of good actors are turning to TV.

Every actor has to deal with what's on his plate, and I try to deal with doing the best work possible with the most challenging scripts. I don't base it on whether it's a feature film or a TV-movie or cable.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.