The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.

I went to drama school with John Schwarz and Mike's his younger brother, so he tends to just hang out, that's it. So we're a pretty tight bunch of guys, they do whatever they do and they're my brothers basically.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

All you need in any industry is someone to back you, and Jim Cameron backed me up.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.