That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we would get three or four hours at a time.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.