Matthew Fox has revealed that he stands by his decision to leave television work following the end of Lost.
The Emperor actor - who played Jack Shephard on the ABC drama between 2004 and 2010 - said that he wouldn't want to lose his freedom.
Fox told the Radio Times: "I think the best storytelling is happening in television right now, and I think has been for some time. This new cable model of ten or thirteen episodes or even miniseries, and Netflix making a ten-story band, this is a great thing for storytelling.
"For me, what's perfect about the way I'm working right now – I haven't been on a set since Emperor, that's almost a year and half – is the fact that I can do that.
"If I was working on Lost right now I would not have been able to go, 'You know what, it's time for me to take a year and half and just be at home and be with my kids and my wife and do things outside the business and completely drop out for a while'."
Fox added: "That's what's really good about a film here and there, maybe a play - the flexibility. My being able to determine when I'm working and when I'm not - and the only reservation I would have about going back to doing television would be that structure again and that freedom being taken away from me."
However, he admitted that he could be tempted back by a particularly "meaty role".
"Yeah, it's possible. I'm still hopeful that I'm going to continue to find those types of roles in the two-hour format like Emperor," he said. "And what I will start to look for after the first of the year is smaller, independently-financed films where I am really excited by the director's vision and I get to do something that I haven't done before."
Watch a trailer for Matthew Fox's movie Alex Cross below:
