Making your first feature film is actually impossible..

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture..

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

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

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….

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

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make..

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 ….