It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

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

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.

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 came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.