Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

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.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

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

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

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