If I were going to run, this would be the year because it's an open seat.

The best job I ever had was serving as chief deputy in the district attorney's office. I loved every minute of it, I loved working with police. It was always my dream to go back. I learned so much.

Next term, there would be an incumbent district attorney and most people like to serve at least two terms. Effectively, I'm taking myself out of the picture for eight years.

There are many reasons. The timing just hasn't worked out at all. I'm totally ruling it out for this year, but who knows what will happen in the future?

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.