Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.

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..

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop..

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….

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast….

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age..

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 ….

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear..

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition..

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.".

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks..

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan..

Accept certain inalienable truths..

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..

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most producti….

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

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders..

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy..

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

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