Noth on the meaning of "Senseless":

"The title of the show kind of says it all - "Senseless" - and, you know, we do what we do. We’re trying to solve a crime and be objective, and not get sucked into the tragedy, because it can get in your way if you do get sucked into it. But then every once in awhile, it hits you. There’s a scene where the father of the young lady who’s on life support and maybe is going to make it, maybe not, and..."

Alicia Witt on how she winds down from a normal shooting schedule:

"I’ve found that it was funny. Like sometimes I would, I would do that [have a glass of wine]. I would come home, have a glass of wine or literally sometimes I didn’t even have time for that. Sometimes I’d come home, take the dogs out for a walk and fall into bed - take off the makeup, go to bed, wake up the next morning. But the way I kind of work sometimes is I can go a couple of days with very little sleep and then I pull these crazy Saturdays where I sleep for literally 14.5 hours."

Noth on the difference between being on the regular Law & Order and Criminal Intent:

"It’s a bigger responsibility. We’re carrying the show and the story, and in a sense that we’re leading you through all the different points to the resolution of the crime. And have on our shoulders, to sort of present the case and how it unfolds. And it’s the full hour. It’s not just, you know, half and then it goes to the (boards). The cases, I think, are sometimes more complex and sometimes being major case - they’re often something that has a reverberation in the community or the political world, or something like that. Not always, but..."

Alicia Witt on the stresses of the shooting schedule:

"It’s exhausting shooting these episodes and the only thing that I think is like even more tricky than the fact that we’re shooting these long hours and having to keep focused on the facts, and all of that, is that a lot of times when we’re on location what makes it especially challenging mentally is that we’ll have a specific location for the day. So, for example, if we start out the episode interrogating a certain suspect at their home and then later on in the episode we return to that same suspect’s home. And then later in the same episode we return again, and this time we arrest the suspect, we have to shoot all of those that same day right after each other. And in between the scenes, we have to remember exactly what has happened, exactly what we think the person might be guilty of and sort out the sequence of events even though they haven’t been shot yet or they’re not in sequence."

Chris Noth on filming both Criminal Intent and the Sex and the City movie in New York:

"Yeah, it’s pretty schizo. Totally antithetical subject matter, feeling. It’s completely two different sets although for a movie I think they cover an enormous amount of ground as, you know, they may not be doing eight or nine pages like we do. But they cover what they do very - I mean, they cover a lot, you know. They’re going at a rapid pace. So both sets were positively exhausting in completely different ways."

Noth on meeting Sex and the City fans while filming Criminal Intent:

"We were mobbed in Sex and the City on the first week. I mean, every set we were on there were 500 people with their camera phones, you know. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like it and they stayed there all day long. So that was pretty interesting."

Alicia Witt on how Noth's legacy as Mr. Big affected the filimng of Criminal Intent:

"I have to tell that one very funny story though, because any - what I noticed being around you when we were out on the street shooting the show is that yeah, some people were really interested because of Criminal Intent. But you could definitely tell, especially with the female fans - the ones that were into Chris because of Mr. Big. And so that was sort expected, you know. There were always girls like with googly-eyed and just completely mad about him, which is adorable. But then this one day we were shooting a scene in a car and we were following another car, which had the equipment in it and stuff. So there we were in the car with, you know, we’re sort of blocking traffic a little bit. And the camera is in our car and... we had to do a U-turn to go back to where we started from and shoot the scene again. And there was this huge truck that was being blocked by our little caravan. And he started honking the horns furiously and he’s this big, burly guy, you know, mid-40s truck driver. And we figured, 'Okay, he’s just pissed off that he’s - the road ahead of him is blocked and he can’t where he needs to go. And he kept on honking and finally we were turning in front of him and he caught Chris’s eye with the honking. And he yelled out of the window of his car, 'Marry Carrie. Marry Carrie.'"

Noth on whether Carrie and Mr. Big will remain connected and if he sees himself doing Sex and the City later in life:

"Well, so is Falacci and Logan. They’re always - well, I mean, their imprint on each other’s lives, you know, emotionally is going to always be there. I’m trying to think of a - maybe come up with after that one. I don’t think you could call it, if I’m in a wheelchair, Sex and the City... No, there’ll be no Sex and the City with wheelchairs. It’ll be the Golden Girls and the, you know, something old guys."