The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

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.

You are called to serve people and humanity with your talent

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

After being called cherubic and chubby, I'm rocking a bikini!

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.