Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.