"What - how the hell are you going to tell me I'm dead and I'm here to repent for my horrible crimes if you don't even know who I am?"

This is very particular phrasing from Volk. Generally speaking, there are only three reasons to be in entertainment: you love the work, you love yourself and think everyone else should love you too, or the very narrow ways in which you're a functional person don't overlap with anything else.

Asked about what he does for a living, he thinks of it as who I am. Maybe it's all three.