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No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I find that the projects I enjoy signing up to at the moment are with a director who's interested in the script - isn't completely sure what the movie is and isn't concerned about it. He's just interested in going on the journey and discovering it.

I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

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.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.