“Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.”

I’m one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

I’m always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it’s such a wonderful human trait.

I wasn’t interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

In real life, I’m pretty much an eternal optimist.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn’t stop at one instrument.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

I’ve been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

I think it’s really important to live in the moment.

Because I don’t have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it’s always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.

I’m a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I’m pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

A female’s career as an actor is very different from a male’s career as an actor. That’s just the way it is. So, I’m fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.