I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.