It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

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.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

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

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

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.