Quotes from Joel Edgerton

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.