I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet