I could go anywhere in the world and people would stop me in the street and talk about Fringe and how much they adored it and asked questions about it.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

We've had such a close relationship with the fans. Through social networking and the internet, we have much more contact, and we did go to things like Comic-Con. So, I think people know most of our secrets.

Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.