I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.
If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
Where do you even draw the line between genres?
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.
I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'
When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.
You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.
The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'
I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
