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

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

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

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

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

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.

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