Ashley Zukerman

TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character for five years and talk about the things that films used to talk about but don't any more.

In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.

There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It's something I grew up with - how people interact, the slight differences in language and gestures, that I just understand and it puts me at ease.

With the quarantine and borders suddenly closing it could have meant suddenly being stranded on the other side of the planet. It's a shame I haven't been able to see my family in Australia but it never became an option. But certainly, when it's all over I will be heading back.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

I've been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I'm very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

Every now and then we get one voice which stands out, a really unique voice we embrace, like a Josh Thomas.

To be honest, I don't think we were taught much of anything in school.

I had my first for real American person recognize me and come up to talk to me. They'd seen The Code' on Netflix - it was amazing.

I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That's kind of unsettling.

Personally, I'm such a cynic.

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

Spain's beautiful.

I don't have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.

I think that there's something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people.

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don't want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human kind has ever made.

I think the characters Nick and Solomon, the characters on Fear Street,' were definitely further from myself. But I think ultimately I do try to look for the gristle in every character.

I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.