The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

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.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

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.

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

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

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him