The prison helps a great deal in keeping me grounded in the character, ... When you're surrounded by 3-foot thick walls, you really understand how impossible his task is.

That is very true for any walk of life and very true for my character in 'Prison Break' because he's a structural engineer. I did a little bit of reading about that. And structural engineering is the art and science of connectivity. The pieces of a building are all interdependent. My brother in the story is behind the wall and every brick in that wall represents the conspiracy that put him there. My job as his brother and as an engineer is to find that one brick and loosen it. And another and another and hopefully the whole thing will come down.

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

[Meanwhile, within the prison walls, a little bit more of Michael's plans come into view each week -- only, however, for those who know where to look.] Each episode is going to have a number of puzzles for viewers to solve, and there are six or seven different subplots swirling around, ... It's really going to be something that rewards the attentive and patient viewer.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.