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.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

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'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."