Julia Leigh

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.