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

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 don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

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

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

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