One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

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

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

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Western films don't do very well in India.

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.