In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
Chris Lilley
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
I think surprises make TV entertaining.
It takes me ages to write stuff.
It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
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.
I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.
I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
British comedy fans go crazy.
I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.
I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'
People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.
I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.
I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
I've never been a 16-year-old girl.
To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
I have a massive guilt thing about money.
I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.
I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
