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

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.

SUCCESS in WRITING occurs when your DREAMS are BIGGER than your EXCUSES.

Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.