In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

I have got a reputation to protect.

What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.