I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

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

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

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

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.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.