I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.