It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

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.

Being afraid of things going wrong, doesn't help them go right.

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that, ' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

All art is erotic.

Don't follow leaders.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity.

If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.