Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

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.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

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

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

One BIG thing you overlooked when setting out on living the adventure of being wealthy was that you overlooked your current reality!

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.