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

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.

Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.

She walked away too far for me to call... and for her to hear my voice.

The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.