Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.