I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.