There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.

'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It was really fun, but for me, I look at it as a training film, and I'm not really proud of my work in it.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

[Hope Davis, who appears in his new film,] Proof ... Hello? 'Shakespeare in Love'?