105 Quotes by Miranda Otto

I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.

Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby!

I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I really like research.

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.