It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

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 know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

A painted surface is a real, living form.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?