Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Australians and New Zealanders don't talk about Gallipoli in terms of invasion. I started talking about it and using that word and at first there were a few people who were getting upset in the same way that in any country, if you work for a newspaper you know exactly the dude you can go and talk to get a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to something to do with the military.