“Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent...” — Hugo Weaving Quote

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I did a tour around Europe, and European and Australian crowds are extremely different. I love playing for both for different reasons though.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

I love the dressing up, I love the fashion, I think that's all part of it. Particularly Australian designers are really exciting and all of that's really fun.

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.