Accept certain inalienable truths..

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it..

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen..

Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry..

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity..

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films..

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built ….

Don't worry about the future..

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again..

Advice is a form of nostalgia..

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide..

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that..

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of the….

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that..

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic..

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that..

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.".

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget..

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence o….

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler..