Running the nation's biggest festival is a job that would unnerve even the most confident of creative directors.
But for Gill Minervini, the woman behind Sydney's Vivid festival, it's a challenge she likens to a drug — an unpredictable but intoxicating ride.
"If I sat back and thought, 'Two-and-a-half million people. What are they going to think?' Yeah, I'd probably get spooked. But I choose to be excited by that," she said.