I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

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.

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

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.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.