[on the Cannes Film Festival] It is as I had always imagined it. The madness of it. That strange mix of money and gross-ass luxury with a true and sincere reverence for cinema. I haven't experienced it anywhere else.

[on filmmaking] By the time I've finished making [a movie] I feel like I've lost perspective. This is the part of the process where I get a sense of how it sits in the world. How it's being read, and really terrifyingly, what it might mean for me and the trajectory of my career.

'Animal Kingdom' changed my life. It meant for me that I didn't have to work out what movie I was going to make next. I had to work out how to work. I went from having no options to a thousand.

[on 'The Rover'] In some ways it is an angry movie. But at the same time I feel like 'Animal Kingdom' is angrier than this one. That weird tableau of characters you're left with at the end of 'Animal Kingdom' is a pretty kind of loveless tableau. Where as here, where this movie ends - for all its brutality - is an almost sentimental place of human conception.