I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

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.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

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.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.