Quotes from 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.

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

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

As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.

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!

The comedy and character interaction on 'Atlantis' is what makes it so different from most science fiction shows.

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

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.

The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.

I adored my years playing Rodney McKay and I would jump at any chance to reprise the role!

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

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

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

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

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.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

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

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.

'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.

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.

I actually am a computer nerd.

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.

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!'

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