You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.