I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just can't fake it, you can't teach it, and I think Ed Harris has that quality.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact or a theatrical event. But the whole is the sum of so many images.