If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

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

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.