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

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

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

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

I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.

I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.