My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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

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.

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.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

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.