I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it’s incredibly disappointing.
Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They’re so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it’s a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.
I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.
What I love about the theater is that you know who you’re acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don’t. The audience is invisible. And we’re sitting there, hoping there’s other people out there.
Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
I’m not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, ‘Ok, I wouldn’t mind to try to get here in five years.’
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
The word ‘circumnavigate’ is quite a beautiful word.
I’m of the opinion that it’s okay to be silent, to not speak if you don’t have anything to say.
I don’t have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You’d be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees – I think a lot of it’s imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
I think you’re peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.
The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what’s happening onstage.
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you’ll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They’re less portable.
Mind the gap – it’s the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
See the opportunity in the misstep.
I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.