'I'm Like a Catalyst'

I loathe that though, I loathe it. I loathe the idea of somebody somehow putting boundaries on me as an artist. It just angers me. If I had to play Terry Prescott [from "You Can Count On Me"] in every part that I did, I would become cynical and bored and I'd have a really horrible personal life and do really outrageous things in public.

Because you're trying to show your creativity somewhere else? As in, if you can't do this on screen, might as well do it in public?

I think that's what people end up doing. But for me, I live a really bourgeois life and I live things out on screen.

That's much safer.

Exactly, it's like role playing.

Are there many roles you've turned down because they didn't feel right for you?