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.

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.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

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.

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.