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

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

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 am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.

First thoughts are not always the best.