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Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

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Rain, Pretty, Having, Tuxedo

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

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Golf, Like, Lot, Saddle

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

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Big, Some, Spill, Collision

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

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Happy, Interesting, Back, Different Characters

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

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Play, Sometimes, Smaller, Morally

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

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Sometimes, I Think, Allow, Recede

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

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Young, Very, Gotten, Appear

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

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Writing, Real, Call, Hobby

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

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My Life, Want, Away, Fictional

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

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Process, Next, Over, Stand Up

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

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Deep, Thought, Now, Now And Then

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

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Love, Work, Kind, Joys

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

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Movie, Guy, Being, Stomp

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

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Give, Here, Over, Nothingness

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.

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Truck, Big, Put, Department Store

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.

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Will, Say, Other, Fighters

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

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Movie, Michael Jordan, Local, Jordan

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

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Deserve, Some, Last, Narrator

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

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Nothing, Been, Profile, Tons

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

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Movie, Wolverine, Very, Tons

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

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Feet, Always, Concerned, Sum Total

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

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Like, Still, Feels, Godfather

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

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Doing, Big, I Think, Vastly

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

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Constant, Domination, Highs

It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.

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Work, Fact, Buy, Skirt

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

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Living, Tap, Fantasies, Hardly

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

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Like, Offers, Though, Anonymity

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

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Development, Big, Read, Scripts

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

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Deal, Fiction, I Think, Science Fiction

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

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Pretty, Fascination, Skeptical

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