If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you’re not happy then that’s probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
I’m on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
Hospitals are very extreme places – you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone’s bedside as they’re dying the next.
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.