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.

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

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

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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.

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.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.