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

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

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.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.