I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

It's one of those films that kind of defies the 10-second blurb,

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.