Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

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

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.

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.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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