I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: ‘Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.’
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him.
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Everything I make starts very personally.
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.