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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I like stories that affect families.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.