On "Falling Skies" you were coming from "The Librarians", which you’d produced and directed a ton of. So I'd imagine that’s a different switch in your brain.

Totally, being in my sandbox, and I just forgot that I stepped out of that sandbox in Portland, Oregon, and not every job is my sandbox.

With "The Librarians", you started out doing these movies ... . Those were just for the kids.







— and then it turned into its own show.

When I think about anything, it’s for the kid in me, and for my kids. Flynn Carsen is entirely my sense of play and my sense of humor. I did the first movie because they offered it to me and I wanted to do something other than cancer and dead babies, which I was getting a steady diet of on "ER", so I thought I'll go off and make these — an intellectual comedy romp — and I just fell in love with it.

I am a huge admirer of Keaton, Chaplin, the Marx Brothers. I grew up on all that stuff, and I stole from everybody. I stole from Peter O'Toole. And I could, because we were making this little TV movie on TNT. And then they let us make another one, and another one, and they were so fun!




Then eventually the character became this sort of wonderful, eccentric, positive person, all of these things that I wanted to jump into. Then I got to go to film school. TNT film school. They let me direct, they let me produce, they let me write, and they let me act.

And I've got all these wonderful creative people to work with who can create Paris in five hours and strip it down and give me something else. We stretched a dollar so far on that show.

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I liked him in this show, he was playful & funny. He was good in Falling Skies too but it was a darker show, not as much fun as The Librarians.