Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

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.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

May the light illuminate your hearts and shine in your life every day of the year. May everlasting peace be yours and upon our Earth.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.