I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.