Ben Mendelsohn

I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.