You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.