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.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

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

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

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