We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.