We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

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.

Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness.

Love is selflessly honest, even if it comes from deception.

Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.