Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.