Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.