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

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

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.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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.