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.

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.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

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