It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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.

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.