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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

There's an art to comedy.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.