When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."