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.

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.

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.

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

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Pride would have destroyed me. But i were able cheat on pride. if i could cheat on pride then i could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to be good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi

A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.

Still ending, and beginning still.