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

Strangely enough, I find myself more centered in chaos than in calm, and again I'm not sure whether that's a strength or says something weird about me, but I love a crisis. I'm normally very, very organized in the middle of chaos, and then when I have nothing to focus on, extremely disorganized, and I tend to waste a lot of time.

When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.

I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.

I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.