[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.