Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

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.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

Cheating is often more efficient.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.