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I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.

And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.