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I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.