Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

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

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

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.