I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.