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

Everything I make starts very personally.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

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.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

Don't worry about the future.