Jamie Hector

“That's been my experience all my life, if somebody shocks me out of a deep sleep, my head hurts.”

“In 'Bosch' you'll have one storyline for the most part that is very dynamic and very difficult. When you think you know the answer you don't.”

“I was a part of a theater company growing up so I decided to develop a theater company for budding talent that are at-risk youth.”

“You know, the funny thing about awards - some people are, like, 'Well, it does validate the quality of the work or the show,' but that's not what validates it for me. It's just the opportunity to be working on a show and checking the audience's response.”

“When all else hits the fan, I jump back onstage.”

“For 'The Wire,' I was in a courtyard or row houses, and there's no place like Baltimore for that.”

“If you constantly sit down and think about how you're going to execute something, you're never going to execute it.”

“Showing a great father, a great husband but a horrible man, or vice versa, is very important for the world to see. Just so that you can also ask about yourself: 'Do I act like that? Do I have it in me?'”

“I learned that sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.”

“At the end of the day, when you're riding with your boy it's like, 'If you're in, I'm in. If you're not I'm not.'”

“I'm a Brooklyn boy.”

“There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.”

“In my years on this planet, I've seen people go from bad to righteous. And I've seen it go the other way, from good to bad.”

“There's nothing wrong with amplifying talent in your material.”

“David Simon and Ed Burns have so much confidence in their actors.”

“I grew to love Baltimore during my three years there. I'm grateful to the people who allowed us to tell the stories we told.”

“Sometimes you look at a person, saying: 'I would never do that.' But you do that.”

“Look, to be fortunate enough being on a film like 'All Eyez on Me' is an honor and a blessing.”

“I was part of an organization called Tomorrow's Future Theater Company when I was younger, which changed my life tremendously.”

“Sometimes as a series, you think you're going to have eight, nine seasons, and then you're shooting number seven, thinking you have two more to go, and you realize this is the last one.”