"I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life."
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"Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed."
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"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely"
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"I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great."
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"It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more."
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"I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic."
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"I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears."
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"I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances."
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"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."
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"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
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"I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't."
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"It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen."
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"I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing."
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"When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity."
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"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too."
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"There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating."
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"The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge."
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"When you're battling against the minds of the studios and the money that can go into promoting larger budget films, it's very hard for a very small-budget Australian film to get a look in. You can get critically acclaimed and go to various film festivals around the world, but that doesn't necessarily mean the majority of people are going to hear about it."
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"I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia."
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"I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films."
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