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..

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business..

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz..

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process..

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

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

A life lived in fear is a life half lived..

I mean the future has become old fashioned..

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

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

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway..

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

Don't worry about the future..

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans..

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up..

Advice is a form of nostalgia..

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it..

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film.….

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….

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