I do regard myself as very lucky.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more.

I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

Some people would say I've made it now.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.