Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

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.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

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

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.

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