I support all Australian films.

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 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.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

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

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.