Movie Quotes

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it’s worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don’t act at all. I think that to feel the character’s pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can’t remember the name, but it wasn’t even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.