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

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

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.

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

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.