"I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes."

"Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension."

"I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile."

"I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really."

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

"There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role."

"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."

"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."