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.

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.

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

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."

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

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 to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.