People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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.

Every director works differently.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.