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

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.

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

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

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

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

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.