I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

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

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

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

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.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.