Noah Taylor

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

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 took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.