Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

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

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

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

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

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

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.