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.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

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

The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

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.

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.