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

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

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

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the en….

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..

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

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 ….

I support all Australian films..

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 th….

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..

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity..

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's har….

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky..

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….

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film..

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….

Making your first feature film is actually impossible..

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire..

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

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 ….

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll..