Accept certain inalienable truths.
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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.
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
