I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

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

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.