You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.