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

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

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.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

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.

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.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.