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.'

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

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.

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'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.

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.