I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species.

I know you are mine, not in my life bout in my memories

The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.