My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.