We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.