We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

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.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

What I can't do anywhere is be with you.