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.

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

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.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

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.

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 don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.