Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Follow your passion.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

I liked television, and television liked me.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

The best artists know what to leave out.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.