I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

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.

Oh, Irrylath, Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.