Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
I think surprises make TV entertaining.
I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
It takes me ages to write stuff.
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.
I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
