Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.