If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and that I also read a lot as a kid - if I hear somebody say something that I think's funny, or I find a situation or story, I'll try to work that into the movie.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.