I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.