I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

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.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

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.