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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own. "

" I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. "

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

" I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that. "

" I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. "

" The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are. "

" 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. "

Not Good Enough

" At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. "

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

" I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun. "

" Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. "

" 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. "

" All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. "

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

" I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it. "

" I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. "

" Western films don't do very well in India. "

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

" 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. "

" A life lived in fear is a life half lived. "

" The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. "

" 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. "