Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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.

A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity

You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others.

I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing.

The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

A trade is better then service.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?