I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.