Chris Lilley

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.