I Don't Play Chess With My Life,

You Don't Want To Be Starting A Film Not Knowing What You Want To Do.

Australians And New Zealanders Don't Talk About Gallipoli In Terms Of Invasion. I Started Talking About It And Using That Word And At First There Were A Few People Who Were Getting Upset In The Same Way That In Any Country, If You Work For A Newspaper You Know Exactly The Dude You Can Go And Talk To Get A Knee-jerk Reaction When It Comes To Something To Do With The Military.

There's Nothing Like Sitting Back And Talking To Your Cows.

My Definition [of Genius] Would Be About Being Completely Involved In Your Art Form. So That's Outside Of Sciences. Within The Arts It's About Taking People On A Journey, Being Able To Involve Me Completely-whether You're Singing A Song, Whether It's In The Theater, Whether You're Dancing-if You Can Make Me Forget I'm Sitting In A Seat, That's My Definition Of Genius.

I Don't Know If I Was Ever Looking For This Kind Of Success- It Came Along As A By-product Of Concentrating On What I Was Doing.