Ben Mendelsohn

I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.