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.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

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

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

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

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