In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy. " That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love. ' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.