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.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

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.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really.

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.