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

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I support all Australian films.

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.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

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