Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Some people would say I've made it now.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

Having needs is not evidence of weakness – it is human.

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved,be like that to me!