It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

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

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

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

Every director works differently.