The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.