Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it’s a female lead.

I don’t know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I’m very focused when I’m making a movie, but I’m also a fantastic multitasker.

You’ve got to pick your roles really carefully. It’s a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

I’d like to work with David Lynch again.

No matter what the character is, I just say to myself ‘If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?’ and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.

If I wasn’t acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It’s a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I’ll do it. You’re acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You’re living the life of that person.

When you get the role, it’s ’cause you know exactly how to play it, and they know that the way you’re playing it is exactly what they want. I never go with a role and say that I need to change anything about it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t take it.