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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.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget 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 has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

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.

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.

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.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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

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

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

I support all Australian films.