I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a...
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.