While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

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.

Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.