Quotes from 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.

I've been very lucky with The Code' and Manhattan' in that I've been working with networks that are deeply supportive of the authorial voice.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

Personally, I'm such a cynic.

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.

This is a look, a part of Australia we don't see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It's really beautiful and there's a feel to Canberra that is different to any other city.

The first television show I did was a production called 'The Pacific,' which was this huge HBO series with an insane budget and 300 extras and a crew of 150. We were filming out in the middle of the wilderness in my hometown. I was so green. I didn't understand anything that was happening.

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

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

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.

I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

Whether it's Tom Hanks or whether it's the character of Robert Langdon himself, both loom as large.

I'm not immune to being daunted.

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.

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.

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.

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

Spain's beautiful.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

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 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.

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.