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 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.

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

It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste.

True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.