The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.