I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.