Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them - it's really dangerous to want to be a part of something just because you think it's going to be great. I've been sent plenty of scripts where I've known that it's going to be a great film and a successful one, but I just couldn't convince myself that I was the right person for the part. So, I think you have to be careful with that.