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

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

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.

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.

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

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.