I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can.
Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.