The quality of fellow actors and the script writing is also inspiring, he says.
"It [Home And Away] is one of the main pillars of the Australian television industry and it's so big and gone on for so long it can't help but produce people that have gone on to much bigger and better things.
"It's kind of akin to NIDA [National Institute of Dramatic Art] in a way. Everyone talks about it being the best drama school in Australia and if you go there you're apparently set. You can name a lot of people that have gone through NIDA that have made it but there have been a lot of people who haven't and no-one can name them.
"It's the same sort of thing with Home And Away. It [the series] provides the right circumstances for the right type of people. We have a good strike rate because of our work ethic."
Mitchell has been acting in the series for three years after first being seen as Todd "Romeo" Smith in 2009.
He says his character is scripted well into next year, so there's no end in sight.
The series' intensive shooting schedule gives him little room to moonlight in theatre or even consider movie roles, he says.
"It is possible to try and pursue a little bit of stage perhaps but you need to get time off to do it. At the moment I am just doing Home And Away because my life is hectic enough as it is."
- AAP
