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" A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music. "
People
Saying
Hate
" A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions. "
Down
Street
Someone
" Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really. "
Really
Cup
Stuff
" Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing. "
Broke
Breathing
Just
" Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc. "
Story
Time
Say
" Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking. "
Saying
Me
Face
" Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. "
Growing Up
Kid
Growing
" Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective. "
Perspective
Hollywood
Nothing
" I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. "
Good
Think
Potential
" I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible. "
Possible
Always
Think
" I am geared towards communicating on a female level. "
Level
I Am
Communicating
" I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected. "
Thing
Connected
God
" I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well. "
Movies
Find
Engage
" I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial. "
Go
Effort
Feel
" I don't have many friends. "
Many
Friends
" I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.' "
Men
Talk
You
" I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all. "
Television
Same
Me
" I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing. "
Together
Best
Character
" If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless. "
Tell
Exhausted
Good
" I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine. "
Kind
Horror
Done
" I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate. "
Affinity
Way
Up
" I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job. "
Talk
Things
Me
" I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character. "
Character
Calm
Energy
" I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today. "
Tomorrow
Answer
Different
" I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can. "
I Can
Original
Trying
" I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was. "
Than
Far
Comfortable
" I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. "
Human Nature
Human
Exploration
" I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can. "
Film
Never
Try
" I never really enjoyed the fame stuff. "
Never
Stuff
Really
" I suffer from overheating quite easily. "
Suffer
Quite
Easily
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