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

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

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

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

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

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

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.