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Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.