Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!