When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

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.

To succeed as a Christian is to become one with God

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar.

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.