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

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

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.

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

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

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

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.