I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.