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.

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

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I'd love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I'm in no rush.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

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.