My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.