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

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

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

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

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

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.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.