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

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

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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

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

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

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.