I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.
It’s always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
I guess on a base level that’s one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.
It’s always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.
In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.
Abs are for people with no friends.
When you’re shooting a film, you really don’t get to be a dad, and you don’t really get to be a husband. You don’t really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
When I shoot I’ll take my family with me – one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.
When I go on the plane to fly home, I’m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.
We live our lives by the water and if you don’t know how to swim in Australia, it’s like not knowing how to cross a road. It’s an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you’re a child.
The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that’s supposed to be fun can be the most serious.
Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don’t want to run off and be distracted by other things.
The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.
The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That’s true with people as well as things.
Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn’t mean you do it.
I enjoy just being cocooned in production and it’s completely different to your other life that you have. I enjoy that. I enjoy being on the set and hanging out and talking to whoever we’re working with and just being in the moment.
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.