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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.