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

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

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.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

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.

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

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.