Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian I love a good barbie.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

Because I don't really work out, I have to eat very healthy if I want to maintain my figure.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.