I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I grew up surfing on the north coast of New South Wales, and on most of the beaches, women never wore tops. When we were 10 or 11, me and my mates couldn't drive, so they'd take us surfing and then sit on the beach topless and read a book. I don't know if I quite saw them sexually, but there was physical intrigue.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.