A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

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

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

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 don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.