Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

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.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

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

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

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

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