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

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

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

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.

Western films don't do very well in India.