So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.