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

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

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

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

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

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

In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."