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

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.

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.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

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.

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

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.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

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

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.