Bratt on reliving the life of Warren Boyd:

"Well, the one thing about Warren is that he’s pretty upfront. And before I knew him well, not the least bit scary. He defiantly has a gravitas to him. So rather than probe too deeply about his own personal experience when we first started working on the pilot, I just kind of held him at arm’s length. More out of awe than anything else, because he definitely has a demeanor that speaks to his particular history, which I knew well because it was reflected on the page. He’ll tell you he’s a regular Joe. He’ll tell you he’s just another guy, a regular guy. But that in fact is, not the case. The fact that what he does in real life and how we’re portraying it on screen is heroic. There’s no way to deny that fact. And the way that informs the character played against the fact that he’s a completely screwed up individual, someone who’s flawed and as good as he is in his vocation, he’s not nearly as successful in his home life. That’s sort of the best of all worlds to play as an actor. I mean, I never really had the opportunity to play someone like that on television before. The characters I’ve played on television are a lot more straightforward. So the multi-dimensionality to this character is what the real draw was. And the fact that the real guy stands before me almost on a daily basis when I come to work is really a form on inspiration."

Warren Boyd and Jonathan Prince on the episode related to sex addiction:

WARREN BOYD: It’s really, you know - sex addiction, gambling addiction, anorexia, I mean whatever the addiction is, and there are many of them, it’s not just about drugs. It’s all about the brain. it’s all about the function of the brain. I thank God for spec-scans and things that allow us to understand how the brain works and why different formats take place in the brain and what that is all about.

JONATHAN PRINCE: But what he’s asking, I think, which is drugs and alcohol, you can live without. I guess some people think you can live without sex as well. But food and sex are different. A food addiction and sex addiction are different because the job is to learn how to be a healthy sexual person or a healthy eater. No one says be a healthy Quaalude user - I’m dating myself - but no, I never used Quaaludes in the '90s on a Tuesday. But he’s talking about how do you train someone to be healthy sexually or a healthy eater if that’s your addiction?

Boyd and Prince on whether they would drag someone out of a brothel:

BOYD: Yeah. Basically, yeah. That’s how it’s done. Sometimes it’s a little smoke and mirrors and sometimes it really is infiltrating that world to be able to get somebody out of it who’s in that deep and get that person into the most professional hands that I can find. That is obsessive compulsive behavior, it just happen to pertain to sex.

PRINCE: We do them all, you know. The joy of the show is not merely what they are addicted to, but the worlds they come from. We do a story about a jockey - we shot for a couple of days at Santa Anita - who’s addicted to diet pills and pain killers. We do a story about a suburban mom, upscale, played by Anabeth Gish and her husband Tate Donovan, and she’s addicted to OxyContin and dealing it from the carpool lane of her daughter’s private school, based on a real event, based on his headlines. We do stories that go deep undercover. A federal F.B.I. agent who went to go undercover to help bust open a cocaine manufacturing ring and now he’s addicted to the product. Eric Roberts just did an episode for us where he plays a motorcycle guy, so we go into the world of motorcycle gangs and they’re dealing Meth.

So the world - the jockey, motorcycle guy, suburban mom - it’s fascinating, the addiction on top of that. Who is addicted to gambling? Who is in a cult? Who has an eating disorder? It gets like tentacles. There’s that weird Star Trek episode - I’m dating myself. These things would flap on your back and their tentacles would go in your spine and grab you. These addictions would grab your spinal cord and your brain and your neurons. So how do you pull them out without killing the host, right? That’s sort of what I watch go on when Warren talks about it. When the writers get together and then you watch these guys do it, and again, each one of the team is an ex-addict. Esteban’s [Powell] character, Kevin’s [Michael Richardson] character, Grace’s character, each on of them is grappling with being a functioning ex-addict and I think that’s complex as a performer.