The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

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.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

If you don't believe in God, I don't believe in you.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.