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

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

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

I support all 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.

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

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.