Everything man does creates more harm than good. We have to accept that fact and not delude ourselves into thinking something is sustainable.

But if our institutions of democracy are not working, that is an even greater threat to our national security

I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. Without technological change, if China doubles its energy production over the next two decades, it will also double its air pollution. If every one of India's hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do — using only today's tools — the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine.

I wanted my children to grow up in Australia, and if I have anything to pass on to them as a parent as a mentor, it is my own experiences of having grown up there, and shaped a career there.

He was vulnerable to all the sorts of contradictions that every human can be subject to.

I am being careful not to clutter my life with career administration so I can keep the focus on the acting.

Choosing parts is based on a series of instincts and hunches

My mum beautifully embraced and encouraged the unpredictability of my wayward career.