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

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

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

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.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

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.