What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.

David Hewlett

I always thought there were two kinds of males in the world: the ones who look good naked and the ones who look funny naked.

David Hewlett

Good Funny World

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

David Hewlett

Tin Tend Ten

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

David Hewlett

Us Up Think

'Cube' was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It's also one of my favorites.

David Hewlett

Science Art Uncomfortable

If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!

David Hewlett

Success Writing Write

When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.

David Hewlett

You Up Tin

The sad thing is that I only ever read novels in bed and now only on the iPad, and thanks to Netflix and iTunes my reading time is getting eaten up more and more by movies and brilliant sci-fi television, like the U.K. series 'Misfits!'

David Hewlett

Time Sad Movies

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

David Hewlett

Yin Used Use

Sequels are scary. And making a sequel to something as good as 'Scanners' is even scarier.

David Hewlett

Good Car Thing

The actor's dream is to come in knowing that you're only supposed to do one episode and then come back because people liked it.

David Hewlett

You Wing Win

I want more sci-fi movies that aren't $200 million movies that I have to wait for and generally be disappointed with.

David Hewlett

Movies Wit Want

There's very few comedy sci-fis that have worked for me other than the classics, like 'Red Dwarf' and, of course, 'Hitchhiker's Guide.'

David Hewlett

Work War Worked

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

David Hewlett

Science Ways Way

'Pin' was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it.

David Hewlett

Cool Thin T

I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.

David Hewlett

Movies Where Tower

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.

David Hewlett

Write Well Very

Love scenes in general are the most technical things to shoot.

David Hewlett

Love Things Thing

I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.

David Hewlett

Science Humor Think

I really love playing McKay. It's one of those roles where every day something is different.

David Hewlett

Love Yin Where

I don't want to know what happens because I enjoy picking up a script and going, 'I do what?!'

David Hewlett

Want Use Us

What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.

David Hewlett

Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.

David Hewlett

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

David Hewlett

I drool like nobody.

David Hewlett

Bill Nye, so that guy truly knows everything, and I tested him. I'd come in every day with some new question for him that I'd assuming he'd have no idea basically how to answer it - basically he knows everything.

David Hewlett

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.

David Hewlett

I find that love scenes are the most unsexy things to shoot.

David Hewlett

I wanted to do '2001' from Hal's perspective. What it finally ended up being was 'Final Destination' in space.

David Hewlett

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

David Hewlett

People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.

David Hewlett

The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.

David Hewlett

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

David Hewlett

I wanted to try directing.

David Hewlett

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.

David Hewlett

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

David Hewlett

I guess again I find myself playing the somewhat grumpy scientist. Strange how that happens.

David Hewlett

It's always a stunt acting opposite Robert Picardo, because you never know what he's going to do.

David Hewlett

My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party.

David Hewlett

No, I gained weight while playing the role of Rodney Mckay on Stargate Atlantis... breakfast burritos and a near endless supply of donuts.

David Hewlett

Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe old age of 4.

David Hewlett

No, I am not allergic to lemon, though fresh pineapple can pose problems.

David Hewlett

I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the 'slob' moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn't even have time to change.

David Hewlett

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

David Hewlett

So I think the popularity of the Internet at the same time as the show made a big part of this sort of groundswell of support for 'Stargate.'

David Hewlett

When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.

David Hewlett

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

David Hewlett

You had to do some club after school and it was either the sports or the intellectuals. And right smack in the middle was the acting thing for all the outcasts, which I fell into pretty easily.

David Hewlett

I actually am a computer nerd.

David Hewlett

My mother says my first television experience was hiding behind the sofa watching John Pertwee's 'Doctor Who.' I loved that show.

David Hewlett

I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.

David Hewlett