Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

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

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

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

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

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

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