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If I'd Seen A Grown Man Beating A Crippled Boy, Of Course I'd Intervene. If My Father Died And Left My Mother Destitute, It's Your Instinct To Take Care Of Her. So When I Started To Think About It In Those Terms, It Started To Make Sense To Me

So I Try Not To Do Press And If You Can Keep The Balance Of Keeping A Certain Degree Of Anonymity And Do Interesting Work Then You Can Hope For A Degree Of Career Longevity

The Landscape Of Cinema Is Not Original. Not To Say There Aren't Great Movies Being Made, But It's Much Easier For Studios To Make Movies That Have Built-in Audiences. So It's All Remakes, Adaptations, A Lot Of Remakes Of Adaptations.

Right Before I Got 'sons Of Anarchy,' I Actually Quit Acting For 18 Months And Didnt Read A Single Script, And I Wrote A Film. I Felt Like I Needed To Do Something That I Had Control Over, As An Artist, And Also Just Do Something Where I Felt Like I Had Some Control Over My Life, As Just A Human, Out In The World.

I Don't Just Look At Things As An Actor. I've Also Written Several Films, So I Look At It As A Storyteller And I Know If Something Worked And Should Have Been In There For The Benefit Of The Story And The Benefit Of The Character.