Quotes from Guy Pearce

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

Success comes in waves.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.