It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

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.

You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.