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

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.

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

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.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.