Quotes

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that all day, at school, all the kids sat on the floor and watched The NeverEnding Story (1984). Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be about: sitting cross-legged, on the floor, listening to a never-ending story, page after page.

Now most of Alice (2009) isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message, here, is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is True Romance (1993), directed by Tony Scott, with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it's a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on Grey's Anatomy (2005).