My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.