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

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

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 sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

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

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