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

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

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 suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

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."

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

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

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