Alter / Age Australien / Australia Begann / Began Besitzen / Own Erkannte / Realised Familie / Family Fluss / River Geheimnis / Secret Habe / Got Hätten / Had Mein eigenes / My Own Nichts / Nothing Plötzlich / Suddenly Über / About Weil / Because Wie / How Wusste / Knew
I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.
I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.
What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
