Ashley Zukerman

“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.”

“I don't have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.”

“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.”

“I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.”

“Spain's beautiful.”

“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.”

“I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That's kind of unsettling.”

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

“That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.”

“There's this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that's a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad behavior but I don't think I have trouble with that.”

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

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

“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.”

“I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.”

“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 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.'”

“I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.”

“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.”

“To be honest, I don't think we were taught much of anything in school.”

“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.”