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

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

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

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

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

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. It was made during the Soviet era.

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