What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.