We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

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 loved with every organ but the heart.

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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

You probably don't have much of a choice.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

My personal style has seen so many highs and lows. Probably more lows than highs.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

I'm not a character in any of my books.