At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

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

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

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.