Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

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.

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

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.

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