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

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.

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.

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

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

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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