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.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

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

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

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.

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

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.