I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.