Noah Taylor

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.