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

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.

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

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.