Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.