I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.