The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

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.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

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

Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.