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I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.