Gareth Whitley asks was it frustrating when the powers that be wouldn’t realise your awesomeness when the general public realised it instantly?

Well I’m actually a bit older than people remember and people didn’t recognise it instantly.

The powers that be will never recognise anything except how much money the last thing made.

I’ve had so many conversations where I realised – when I said studio heads don’t listen to a word you're saying I mean exactly that – I don’t think we are speaking the same language because our priorities are completely different.

Except my work is commercial and it tends to let the people who let me make it, make it money.

They’re looking at you like Neo looking at Agent Smith, it's just numbers, symbols.

I’ve had so many experiences where you think, ‘Well, I’ve got some cred now’ but you don’t. I can get in more doors than I could before, I’ve had more opportunities then I’ve had before but there’s always this thing where it just doesn’t matter.

After Firefly was cancelled I had a very comforting talk with Matt Groening who basically told me how badly he had been treated after basically funding the whole of Fox for 20 years with The Simpsons.

So there’s – one’s awesomeness – I’m starting a sentence where I refer to my awesomeness so I already feel like a douche – is never going to be an issue with the studios if you just hope what works, works for them, not in that same way, in the other way that it works for the audience.