Also, the whole kind of star system is not ingrained in Australians in the same way that it might be if you`re a young actor here.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that`s what worked for our film.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen`s stories.

I`m not working now, so I`m sort of facing the unknown.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it`s not the most Christian of sentiments.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

I do Yoga. I`d like to say I do it every morning, but I don`t, I just don`t have the time.

Because in Australia there really isn`t a lot to do. There aren`t a lot of opportunities.

I think part of that is to create an environment where it`s like real life, where you don`t really know what`s going to happen to you in a certain scene.

I went through a phase of not wanting to watch any movies at all, and lately I`ve got back into watching films, I think because I meet people that make them all the time, and I feel like if I`ve seen their movie I know more about them, and it`s a better discussion to have. And in doing that I rekindled my love of movies.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

Well, I think because I did Love and Other Catastrophes and then I realised that there was some kind of possibility there, and you don`t waste it.

I just don`t talk about who I`m going out with, that`s it. It`s an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it`s kind of therapeutic in a way.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn`t want them because I`d already played the best there was.

I don`t smoke and I don`t drink alcohol.

But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

So I was in America and I thought I`ll stick around while I`m here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

I did have a hot kissing scene in this movie I did with Denzel Washington that came out last year, Man on Fire. But it got cut out.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it`s about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

Any situation today could be a tragedy or a comedy, it just depends on the mood that you`re in when you`re experiencing it, and the mood of the storyteller who is telling it.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

We don`t relate to her too much because you don`t want the heroic character to not be heroic.

Well, when I was doing movies like High Art, I was kind of experimenting with just being in America and working in different kinds of films.

To be honest, it`s easier for me to speak with an American accent.

[Explaining why she dropped the Rani] ... on my first day of school. Someone asked me if my name was Macaroni.

But now I think I`m a bit more clear about what I want to do when it comes to my career, which opens up a lot of more interesting parts, in some ways.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I`d definitely rather be rich than famous.

I didn`t even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

We`ve become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn`t exist now.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

But I`m also a vegetarian so there`s another factor I guess.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I`m Australian.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there`s a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.