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• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
• 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…
• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought…
• 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,…
• In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
• 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…
• 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?
• It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
• 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…
• 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.
• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.

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