I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I have a real sympathy for - a person that I can completely go, "Oh, wow, oh, I'm there." Otherwise I don't feel like I will be able to pull it off at all. I know I haven't done everything very well in the past; some things have worked and some things haven't. But I need to feel like I can feel about the person, understand that person, I suppose.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

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.

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.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.