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

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

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

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

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.

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

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