A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

Mind your own business.

I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Today's feminism infantilizes women. If feminism is not about freedom, then what the heck is it for? It just becomes a grievance lobby of victimhood games.

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.