What does an actor like Zachary Quinto bring to the role of Sylar?
You can’t do a character like Sylar, who is deep and complex, without having the actor who can play those colors and that depth. Zach has really sort of provided us with the ability to explore this character in really, really deep ways. I see Sylar as someone who’s on a very deep existential quest to find out the meaning of his own existence, where he came from and what is driving him. We will continue to peal the layers off of that onion as long as this character exists on the show. Can you talk about the part you played in Zachary Quinto getting the role of Spock in next summer’s “Star Trek?” I don’t think I’m speaking out of school to say this but [Hollywood’s] a small community, in many ways. There’s a real lineage of relationships between me and the people who do the television show “Lost.” And the people who do the television show “Lost” are the people who ended up doing “Star Trek.” So they were fans of my work and I’m a fan of their work. We see each other all the time, so Zach
