The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

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.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.