I support all Australian films.

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.

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain ordinary everyday kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too.

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

I am a naturally curious person. -Tris

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.