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

Accept certain inalienable truths.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

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

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

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

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.