Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

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

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

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

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."