It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I think that one of benefits of being on a critically acclaimed show is that people have an understanding that maybe you can act.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

The programme's evolving constantly, and it may well go back into more psychological horror - these things tend to go in cycles in long-running shows.

They're still keeping up the wonderfully inventive storylines, but for instance that movie, SEVEN, it's fairly graphic, but still very good.

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.