I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

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.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

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.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

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.

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.